Court rules in favor of circus.com owner. Online gambling company Circus Belgium SA has failed for a third time to get the domain name circus.com. First, it tried to obtain the valuable domain name through a UDRP in 2016. It failed and was found ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
.Ai, cybercriminals and domain pricing
· Policy & LawNetcraft published a report showing that criminals will use expensive domains for sophisticated schemes. Netcraft published an analysis of cybercrime in the .ai namespace today. .Ai is the country code for Anguilla and is popular because of ... Continue Reading1 Comment
This might be my favorite UDRP decision ever
· Policy & LawPanelist David Sorkin didn't need many words to express his dismay. UDRP panelists sometimes feel the need to be verbose. So I love the decision David Sorkin wrote for NattyOutdoorstore .com. Microtech Knives, Inc. filed the dispute against ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Sleep Number tries to reverse hijack beds.com
· Policy & LawCompany wrongfully alleged that the domain owner stole the domain. A UDRP panel has found that mattress company Sleep Number Corporation tried to reverse domain name hijack beds.com. Sleep Number once owned and used the domain name, and in 2018, ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Unstoppable Domains files three more trademark applications
· Policy & LawCompany continues to go after U.S. trademarks for its alt-root top level domains. Alt-root web3 domain name provider Unstoppable Domains has filed three more U.S. trademark applications corresponding to the names it offers. The company has ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain investor sues to try to get one character .com domain names
· Policy & LawCompany claims it should get 1.com, a.com etc based on its registration of internationalized domain names. A domain name investor has sued ICANN (pdf), arguing that the investor should have exclusive rights to many single-character .com domain ... Continue Reading5 Comments
OnlyFans competitor tries to reverse hijack Playhouse.com
· Policy & LawPanelist calls out Complainant for making "spurious allegations" against domain name owner. Playhouse International, which fashions itself as a more "sex-worker friendly" version of OnlyFans, has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy wins reverse domain name hijacking case
· Policy & LawCoffee company loses dispute against GoDaddy's NameFind. NameFind, a GoDaddy subsidiary with a portfolio of about 1 million domains, has successfully defended its domain cappuccine.com in a UDRP. The panel found (pdf) that the Complainant, ... Continue Reading1 Comment
IBA is no IBM
· Policy & LawMedical equipment company IBA tries reverse domain name hijacking. Some three letter trademarks are universally famous: think IBM and BMW. IBA is not one of them. Yet medical equipment company IBA SA tried to argue this in a cybersquatting ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Another day, another incompetent cybersquatting case
· Policy & LawPlease hire a lawyer familiar with UDRP. If you think someone is cybersquatting on your brand, please hire a competent lawyer familiar with UDRP to evaluate and file your dispute. For the second day in a row, a Complainant has failed to make ... Continue Reading3 Comments
